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There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.

-Abraham Lincoln

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There May Sometimes Be Ungenerous Attempts To

Abraham Lincoln

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.

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We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. that brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. is there a virtue more in need of application in our time than the virtue of forgiving and forgetting? there are those who would look upon this as a sign of weakness. is it? i submit that it takes neither strength nor intelligence to brood in anger over wrongs suffered, to go through life with a spirit of vindictiveness, to dissipate one’s abilities in planning retribution. there is no peace in the nursing of a grudge. there is no happiness in living for the day when you can ‘get even.

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. i think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. and therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. it allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing.

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